Cat's Cradle Reflection

One thing I learned from this book is that you really can't predict the future. When the atomic bomb was created, they didn't realize what kind of damage that their creation would produce. When the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Newt described how his father wouldn't read anything that people were sending him once the bomb hit, "As I say, all he wanted from that manuscript was the string.That was the way he was. Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next." I'm sure that Felix Hoenikker didn't expect his bomb to be one of the biggest destroying devices yet, and how much damage it would really do. When he admitted to the world that he knew this was going to indent a huge toll on Hiroshima, he wasn't thrilled. He started to cry, because he really didn't think that something he had been working on for a long time would do as much damage as it did. The same thing goes for when they went to the land of San Lorenzo. When they got on the plane they were expecting, "A healthy, happy, progressive, freedom-loving,beautiful nation makes itself extremely attractive to American investors and tourists alike." When they got off the plane, they discovered something way different then what they were told. Such as showing up to San Lorenzo with the sight of, "The islanders were oatmeal colored. The people were thin. There wasn't a fat person to be seen. Every person had teeth missing. Many legs were bowed or swollen" It just shows that in life you really don't know what life will bring you. You can try to plan the outcome of the future, but anything can happen and change everything.